THE government is set to decide this week whether to announce an extended bumper holiday over Eid Al Fitr.
As reported in the GDN, MPs last week voted unanimously to give Bahrain it’s very own ‘Cinco de Mayo’ and make May 5 a one-off national holiday this year.
They voted in favour of removing the ‘odd working day’ of Thursday, May 5, likely to be caught between two weekends, the Labour Day holiday and the Eid break.
The proposal would provide people the option of enjoying an alternative consecutive nine-day break.
The Cabinet has until Thursday to take a decision on the matter with a ‘no-answer response’ being considered as an immediate rejection to the proposal.
This year’s holidays are set to start with a weekend on Friday and Saturday, followed immediately by Labour Day on Sunday.
Should Sunday be declared as the first day of Eid then the holidays would run from Sunday to Tuesday with Wednesday given to workers as a day off in compensation for Sunday.
However, should Eid be declared on Monday, then the break days will also automatically continue until Wednesday.
Workers in both the government and private sectors, however, would be summoned back to work on Thursday, before the weekend on Friday and Saturday, much to their disappointment, say parliamentarians, as reported by the GDN.
Cinco de Mayo, or the fifth of May, is a national holiday in Mexico that celebrates the date of the Mexican army’s May 5, 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla during the Franco-Mexican War.
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